Our Mission:

Parents are a child’s first and most influential teachers.

The Parents as Teachers National Center is committed to the development, promotion and evaluation of programs and public policies that provide

family support and education through the earliest years of a child’s life.

What is Parents As Teachers?

The PAT program is designed to provide parents with practical information to promote the growth and development of infants and toddlers.

This includes:

Prenatal developmental information and guidance to help parents prepare for life’s most important job - being a parent.

Parents As Teachers is open to any parent with a child under 36 months of age who lives in Cheney USD 268. There are no guidelines required for participation and this program is free.

PAT Provides:

Home visits with nationally certified parent educators trained in child development. Visits are scheduled every four to eight weeks during the day or evening. Visits are individualized for both parent and child and designed to provide ideas for age-appropriate activities.

Playgroups offered as a socialization experience for young children and their parents. These are offered during the day and evening, provide parent/child activity sessions and provide age-appropriate activities.

Parenting Classes designed to give parents the positive child-rearing tools they need to be effective parents. These are offered several times a year, during the day or evening, and as daily workshops or weekly sessions.

Resource Network provides information and services whose needs are beyond the scope of the Parents as Teachers program.

Screenings offered as a source of information about a child’s developmental level. Screenings include language, social and motor skills and periodic monitoring of progress.

Best of all…….we have a GREAT time!

*No Participation Fee*